/lit/ - Literature

>>13523132
oh good, where is he?

>>13523182
SEETHING Angloid

best thread

>>13523132
where do I get a cool Medieval Florentine hat so I can pretend to be Dante and Boccaccio?

hi, /lit/.

>>13523132
>Christcuck
lol. Can't believe people in the 21st century still give these idiots the time of day

>>13523213
You have to go back.

Vita Nuova is highly underrated, Beatrice's death and Dante's reaction to it made me weep like no other

>>13523209
Some Italian university adopt medieval hats for goliardy, but ithey’re shaped more like a “Robin Hood” hat
Usually those shops or wherever the fuck reenactors take them from

>>13523132
>ywn have Dante’s original manuscripts
It hurts so much guys

>>13523348
They always forget about Petrarca
Say something nice about Petrarca too, you meanies

>>13523376
Biggest brain, and wonderful friend. He hyped up Boccaccio a lot, plus his Invectives are hilarious. But by God, as a poet too, he GOOD

>>13523415
He breddy much single-handedly invented philology

>>13523424
and launched the Renaissance with it. I hate that he's forgotten outside of academic circles or France/Italy, he accomplished so much both as an author and academic, it's wonderful

>>13523132
>greatest writer
*Mediocre poet

>>13523460
I sense petty envy.

>>13523132
From "Borges" (2006) by Adolfo Bioy Casares:
>BORGES: They say that lately, T.S. Eliot, to show himself as more English than the English has stated that Shakespeare was superior to Dante.
>SILVINA (Bioy's wife): Don't you think that?
>BORGES: I don't think anyone is superior to Dante. Shakespeare seems to me a little irresponsible to put him that high. I don't think of him as capable of building something like The Divine Comedy. He had eloquence, congratulations, that's also present in Dante.
>SILVINA: And the sonnets? Even if you don't like them they're very cute.
>BORGES: Dantes' are also not bad. Shakespeare's have a very weird theme...
>SILVINA: What does it matter? Is it impossible to write a great work with a weird theme?
>BORGES: I don't know. The theme is so weird --asking a beautiful friend to marry and have children to whom he'd transmit his beauty-- that must be true, who would invent that? An argument against Shakespeare is that one does not always want to read him and that there's pieces we don't know.
>BIOY: Do you put The Divine Comedy above all?
>BORGES: As far as literature is concerned, it's only inferior to the Gospels. Homer might be a great writer, but it's incomparable to Dante and the authors of the Gospels. Is there a truly epic moment in The Illiad? I don't think so.
So there you have it, when a huge Anglophile and massive reader such as Borges thinks Dante is the GOAT you know the matter is settled.

>>13523460
Yeah, mediocre poet, shitty philosopher (and linguist, six centuries ahead of De Saussure),bad Latin writer
You must be way better than him

>>13523132
Allen Mandelbaum or John Ciardi translation?

>greatest narrative writer
ftfy

>>13523212
boo go back to feggit

>>13524489
>Jewish or Italian translator
Hmmmm

>>13523132
can you give me a brief overview? I can't read but my mum reads out /lit/ posts for me but wont do whole books

>>13523485
>Is there a truly epic moment in The Illiad? I don't think so.
Fucking scrapwriter insulting the Worker, the Architect of Epic poetry. He should've stuck to his novellas and fiddlings.

>>13523132
hello spaghetti elemental

>>13524600
Read Jason M. Baxter, its basically an introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy.

>>13524609
He's right, though. And he never wrote novellas.